Professional Self-Reflection: teachers as philosophers
This post belongs to an occasional series on teacher professional development. Previous posts include The Reflective Teacher as Reflective Learner and Teacher P...
Category: Writing
Play, Neoteny & Convivial Learning
A number of years ago, I gave a talk entitled ‘The Joy of Learning’ to the Australian College of Educators in the impressive setting of Geelong Coll...
Putting the Makar in the Maker Movement
The makar has been an exalted component of Scottish literature and culture for more than 600 years. The makars were the makers of poems, the ancient poets and b...
Books That Made Me An Educator: a Forgotten Classic
This is the third in an occasional series of posts highlighting some of the books that led me into education or that have greatly influenced me as an educator o...
Post Literacy Post-Haste
Anxiety sells! So says The Economist this week in an excellent piece showing just how long we have had to listen to the oft-heard announcements of the terminal ...
The Persistent Fetish: the printed book in the digital age
The book, as we have known and loved it for half a millennium and more, is an object of veneration for many. I am undeniably a bibliophile, and while it is most...